The Holy Profane
Subtitle: Religion in Black Popular Music
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Published: December 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780813122557
Subjects: Black studies; Contemporary popular music; Religion & Beliefs; Sacred & religious music; Religious aspects; History and criticism; Sacred Music; Spirituality - General; Music/Songbooks; Religious - General; Music; Popular Music; Ethnic; Ethnic Studies - African American Studies - General; United States; Ethnomusicology; Genres & Styles - Pop Vocal; African Americans; Christianity
First sentence: In their book Stairway to Heaven: The Spiritual Roots of Rock 'n' Roll, Davin Seay and Mary Neely write that "by the mid fifties, currents of showmanship and sanctification in black American culture were rapidly converging.